Associate Investigator

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Department of Psychology
University of Exeter, UK

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I'm a neuropsychologist with a love for applied, clinical research. This allows me the happy combination of both assisting people with acquired brain impairment, but also satisfying my curiosity regarding the brain and how it functions. Over the last 7 years, I have been involved in studies of memory and language disruption in people with young onset dementia, as part of the FRONTIER team (lead by Professor John Hodges and Associate Professor Olivier Piguet). Particular research focuses included the diagnosis and treatment of Primary Progressive Aphasia, emotion recognition in Frontotemporal Dementia and Motor Neurone Disease, clinical staging of Frontotemporal Dementia, and caregiver burden. I completed my PhD in 2014, which investigated the benefits of word retraining programs in people with Semantic Dementia.

My current research, conducted with Professor Adam Zeman at the University of Exeter, UK, focuses on memory impairments in patients with Transient Epileptic Amnesia, a rare form of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Here we are conducting a 10-year longitudinal follow up study, as well as investigations into the effectiveness of anti-convulsant therapy in ameliorating both seizures and cognitive complaints (http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/time/).

Savage, S. (2017, June). Feeling lost for words? Word retraining programs for people with semantic dementia. Colloquium at the Annual Meeting of the International Collaborative Research Group, Stavanger, Norway.